hemlock

hem·lock  (hmlk) n. 1. a. Any of various coniferous evergreen trees of the genus Tsuga of North America and eastern Asia, having small cones and short flat leaves with two white bands underneath. b. The wood of such trees, used as a source of lumber, wood pulp, and tannic acid. 2. a. Any of several poisonous plants of the genera Conium and Cicuta, such as the poison hemlock. b. A poison obtained from the poison hemlock. [Middle English hemlok, poisonous hemlock, from Old English hymlice, hemlic.]

hemlock Eastern hemlock Tsuga canadensis

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hemlock [ˈhɛmˌlɒk]

n

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) an umbelliferous poisonous Eurasian plant, Conium maculatum, having finely divided leaves, spotted stems, and small white flowers US name poison hemlock See also water hemlock

2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a poisonous drug derived from this plant

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) Also called hemlock spruce any coniferous tree of the genus Tsuga, of North America and E Asia, having short flat needles: family Pinaceae See also western hemlock

4. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) the wood of any of these trees, used for lumber and as a source of wood pulp

[Old English hymlic; perhaps related to hymele hop plant, Middle Low German homele, Old Norwegian humli, Old Slavonic chǔmelï]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	hemlock - poisonous drug derived from an Eurasian plant of the genus Conium; "Socrates refused to flee and died by drinking hemlock" phytotoxin, plant toxin - any substance produced by plants that is similar in its properties to extracellular bacterial toxin
	2.	hemlock - large branching biennial herb native to Eurasia and Africa and adventive in North America having large fernlike leaves and white flowers; usually found in damp habitats; all parts extremely poisonous California fern, Conium maculatum, Nebraska fern, poison hemlock, poison parsley, winter fern Conium, genus Conium - small genus of highly toxic biennials: hemlock poisonous plant - a plant that when touched or ingested in sufficient quantity can be harmful or fatal to an organism
	3.	hemlock - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock hemlock tree, hemlock - an evergreen tree wood - the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees
	4.	hemlock - an evergreen tree                     hemlock tree genus Tsuga, Tsuga - hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce hemlock - soft coarse splintery wood of a hemlock tree especially the western hemlock Canadian hemlock, eastern hemlock, spruce pine, Tsuga canadensis - common forest tree of the eastern United States and Canada; used especially for pulpwood Carolina hemlock, Tsuga caroliniana - medium-sized evergreen of southeastern United States having spreading branches and widely diverging cone scales black hemlock, mountain hemlock, Tsuga mertensiana - large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock Pacific hemlock, Tsuga heterophylla, west coast hemlock, western hemlock - tall evergreen of western North America; commercially important timber tree conifer, coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones

Translations

hemlock [ˈhemlɒk] N (= plant, poison) → cicuta f

hemlock [ˈhɛmlɒk] n → ciguë f

hemlock

n (Bot: = poisonous plant) → Schierling m; (= tree) → Schierlings- or Hemlocktanne f; (= poison) → Schierling(saft) m; Socrates drank the hemlock → Sokrates trank den Schierlingsbecher

hemlock [ˈhɛmˌlɒk] n → cicuta

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hemlock [ˈhɛmˌlɒk] n → cicuta